Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-06-25


or KnUwicugc anu n,ucingclce. onail VIC
not give it to thenlP The officers OF tho
law ought to go down into the cellars, and
up into the carrots, and bring out these
benighted little ones and put them under
educational influences; after they have
passed through the bath aud under the
comb, putting scfore them the spelling
book, and teaching them to rc;,d the
Lords Prayer aud tho sermon on the
mount: "Blcsscd are the poor In spirit,
for theirs Is the Kingdom Of Heaven. -
Our city ought to be father anu mother
both to these outcast little ones. AS
recipc for the cure of much of tho woe,
and wont and crime Of our city, give tho
words which Thorwaldscn had chisclcd on
the open scroll in the hand of the statue
of John Gutenberg, the inventor OF tho art
Of printing: LET there be liShtv'
Still further: Relormatory societies arc
an important clement In the rccillcltion
of tho public fountain. Without culling
any of them by name, refer more cspo-
cially to those which recognize the phys
ical as we'll us the moral woes oil the
world. There was pathoS and Il great
deal of common sense i'll what the poor
woman said To DIR. Guthrie when hcwas
telling her what Il very good womcii she
ought To be. ''Oh,' she said, s.if you
were rs hungry and cold as l ain, you
could think of nothing clsc." I believe
the great want of our city is the Gospel
and something to eat Faith and repent
ance are of infinite importancc; but they
cannot satisfy an empty stomach. You
have to go forth in this work With the
bread Of eternal life in your right hand
and the bread OF this lifo in your left
hand, and then you can touch them, inn
itatins5 the Lord Jesus &rst, who first
broke the bread and fed Snultitude in
the Wilderness, and the pm to preach,
rcSognizlns tho fact Il lie people lre
hungry they Will not Ind thcy-1&u
,lrotrcpcnt We wanf common senBc
in tho distribution OF t,., Charities; fewer
magnificent theories, and moro hard
work.
Still further: The great remedial in
tluclicc is the gospel of Christ. Take That
down through tho lales of suffering. Take
that down amid the novels of sin. Take
that up amid the mansions and palaces Of
YOUR city. That is the salt tli;tt can cure
all the poisoned fountains of public iu-
iulity. Do you know that in this cluster
of three cities. New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn, there IRE IL great multitude of
homeless children? You sec speak more
in regard to the youth and the children of
the country, because old villains arc
seldom reformed, and, therefore, l talk
more about the little ones. They sleep
under the stoops, in tho burned ont safe,
in the wagons in the streets, on the barScs,
wherever they can get II board to cover
them. And in the summer they sleep all
night long in the parks. Their dcstitution
is we'll set forth by IN incident. y city
missionary asked one of them: "Whcrc is
your honc:" Said he: ~ don't have no
home, SIR "Well, where arc Your father
and mothcr?' ''They arc dead, SIR
ssDid you ever hear of Jesus Christ!n ''No,
I don't think ever heard of him. - ''Did
YOU ever hear of God?" eyes, I've heard
of God. Some of the poor people think it
kind Of lucky ut night to say something
OVER about that before they go to sleep.
Yes, sir, I've heard of him." Think OF u
conversation like that in u Christian city.
How many are Whiting for you TO come
out in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ
and rescue them from the Indebtedness
here. Oh, that the church of God had
arms long enough and hearts warm
enough to tako them up! How many of
them there arel AS WAS thinking Of
the subject this morning, it seemed to me
as though there was u great brink, and
that these little ones with cut and torn
feet were coming on toward it. And here
is group of orphans. Oh, fathers and
mothers, what do you think of these
fatherlcss and mothcrless little ones2 No
hand at home to take ciTe of their APP
parcl, no heart to pity them. Said one
little one, when the mothee died: ';Who
will t;lke care of MY clothcS now?" The
little ones are thrown out IN this great,
cold world. They are shivaring on the
ariIIk like lambs on the verge of preci-
Pile. Does not your bloo(g run cold as